Continued.... Pope Leo VIII and Benedict V were soon done away with, and pope John XIII climbed up to the throne of Peter. He, however, was chased away by the citizens of Rome for his prideful and arrogant behavior. Benedict VI took his place and he, very shortly after, was thrown into prison and strangled to death. His successor, John XIV, was taken prisoner by a rival pope, Boniface VII, thrown in jail and poisoned. The one that poisoned him was himself poisoned a little while later, and his corpse was dragged through the streets of Rome and left there to rot. Priests came by night to pick him up and he was buried secretly. John XV took up the right to canonize and beatify, which up to that point was left to every bishop to do as he saw fit. John XVI was imprisoned in the year 998 A.D. by his rival, Gregory V, and came to a terrible end. He had his eyes gouged out, and his nose and ears cut off and left to die in a dark prison with no windows.
Gregory V was the last pope of that century, and he was the first to declare the interdict over a nation ---France. An interdict was the most horrible and devastating tool of despotic power, and the instrument of the Vatican's new world. Today no pope would dare to speak an interdict against any nation openly, but in those bygone dark days of the 10th century, no nation could experience a more cruel way for its economy and life in general.
To put it into a nutshell, grief, despair and gloom began to settle over France. No farmer would work the land and seed, for they believed that the soil was cursed and brought forth no fruit. No business transaction took place and no merchant dared to send his ships out, or receive or purchase any goods for fear that lightning would strike them. There were no pilgrimages, no baptism, no weddings, no church services and no funerals. The churches were closed and left unattended, no bells tolled, the dead would be buried without any ceremony, more like animals and marriages were only confirmed at the cemetery, and not before an altar. This was the outcome of the curse of the "holy father".
Excommunication was known for a long time already, but it was always spoken against a single person, and it was the end of such person socially and spiritually. Such person was stripped of all civil, and church rights. There was no court in the land that would listen to any complaint of his. He could never be a witness. He could never open up a business, or a dealership, or make any business transactions, nor was he able to buy anything with money. At the door of his house stood a stretcher, for his corpse could not be buried in sacred soil. With all this one can see the awesome power that made even emperors and kings tremble.
Sylvester II succeeded Gregory V, and was, according the papal scribes, taken away by the devil himself. He is also known to have given us the Arabic numerals. He is gone into the history books as one who had made a pact with the devil.
Now in the meantime, the Pseudo-Isidore Decretals had started to blossom during the 10th century. During the 11th century, they brought forth much fruit. In this century we see the Vatican at its peak of power with pope Gregory VII at the throne. Before we speak about this most powerful pope, however, let us take a look at those who are serving under him, the cardinals. They too, grew very powerful and presumptuously took up rank next to the head of states. At the beginning, they were not to be any more than servants of the pope, and there were seven of them. Since this office was a much sought after one, and their power and influence had grown dramatically over the earlier times, and the pope had no choice but to increase them to 70 in the late 10th century. They were the ones who insisted that the election for a pope should not be held publicly anymore, but through a panel of cardinals, giving each cardinal equal chance to be elected to the throne.
The cardinals were wearing purple cloaks as a distinct sign of their office. A cardinal had the power to realize any criminal he met on the way to the gallows, if he wanted to, and even though he was convicted by the court and found guilty, the cardinal had the power to pardon him. Most of the cardinals deserved the gallows more than any other criminal. Unfortunately, it is impossible to send a cardinal to be executed for it takes 72 witnesses to make a charge stick. They were the only ones allowed to kiss a queen on the lips. (Isn't this interesting?)
Gregory VII reigned from 1073-1085 A.D. He was the son of a blacksmith. His real name was Hildebrandt. Although he was small in size, he was strong in spirit. He was the most powerful pope that ever had occupied the "holy see". Cardinal Domiani called him Hollenbrand, which means "hell on fire". His election was achieved through intrigues and hypocrisies, and king Henry the IV was the driving force behind it. This son of a blacksmith wrought the chain that was to hold the world in the ban of popery for nearly 1,000 years. He was the true brain of the papacy as we know it today. He was relentlessly looking for a way to establish the One World Government, which he called "universal monarchy." He was hardly elected when he expressed the idea that the whole world was subject to feudal tenure to the Vatican. Some of the kings and princes agreed with him and gave their land to tenure; some did not agree with him because they were able to see through the lies, intrigues, and trickery, and he spoke the interdict over them. What we have just read concerning the interdict, came to pass over all those nations. A king who was under the interdict, e.g. excommunicated, was stripped of all his powers. All his subjects were released from their allegiance to him, and they no longer had to listen to him. Since the people had grown accustomed to the fact that the pope was the deputy of God, it wasn't difficult for the pope to press forth his claim. This gives you an idea how gullible and stupid people are when it comes to these things.
To achieve all this, Gregory found it necessary to loosen the clergy from the bondage of secular powers, for they were not to have any other interest, but the church. He went out to destroy the family ties and all that the family stood for, with the main aim to kill marriage among the priesthood. This makes Gregory the one who ushered in celibacy. You may very well imagine that such a thought did not go down well with the majority of the bishops and priests. The fight that developed from it lasted for nearly 200 years, with the result that the Vatican got its way.
The next step was the destruction of the investiture, which is the formal bestowal of a possessory, or a prescriptive right as a beneficiary of feudal laws, which was executed in the following way. To the higher ranking echelon of the Vatican, many gifts were given them by emperors, kings, princess, and other noblemen of the nations, together with bestowal of land, subjects, honor, and certain other rights. As a symbol of their office a ring was given to them as a sign that they are married to the church, together with a shepherds crook, but the candidate did not receive the pleasure of his office until a ceremony had taken place, which was called "the Investiture". It was an honor given to them by the head of the nation where his office was to be installed.
This Gregory VII was trying to eliminate by taking away all power from the nations and their leaders, and turn it over to the church. At a synod in the year 1075 A.D., he released a decree to the priesthood forbidding them to receive the Investiture out of the hand of laymen. He threatened the cardinals and bishops with the loss of their offices, and he threatened kings and princess with the interdict if they so much spoke against it.
This of course, raised some eyebrows, but no one took notice of it. Hildebrandt, e.g. Gregory VII. did not bother with any of the small fry among the emperors and kings. He zeroed in on the mightiest one of them in those days, Henry IV.
Henry had many enemies, and Gregory used them for the furtherance of his own ends. He was so bold as to summon him to Rome, where he was to give an account of himself. Henry IV., whose father had removed three popes from office, was not a bit amused, and called a synod at Worms, Germany. The result was, the pope was put into interdict and removed from office. While this took place, more trouble was brewing over the horizon for the pope. A group of people who had been excommunicated by him had united, and ambushed the pope while reading High Mass. They dragged him out of the church by his hair and threw him in jail, but the blind mob released him again.
Gregory was out for revenge. ( Not a very Christ like virtue, was it?) He answered his demotion by casting Henry IV and his followers into the interdict, which released all his subjects from their oath of allegiance, and demoted him. At the same time his monks flooded the German land in an all out effort to turn the people against him, and at first they had little success. Through the intrigues of the pope however, more and more fell away from the emperor until only one, the duke Gottfried of Lorrain, was left. He was murdered by the pope's henchmen.
All German princes gathered at Tibur, and proclaimed to the emperor that his reign would be over if he didn't rid himself of the interdict. This led to the infamous walk of Henry IV to Canossa, where the once mighty emperor bowed his knees before the pope in repentance. This is how history describes this event:
Gregory VII was on his way to Augsburg, Germany, when he heard that the emperor was nearby. In panic he fled to the castle of his concubine, Mathilda of Canossa, where Henry went to meet him. There he stood three days and three nights in the bitter cold of the winter, clothed in nothing more than a woolen shirt to signify his repentance, shaking, because of hypothermia, hunger and thirst. The pope spoke to him and said: "Will you call a synod to justify yourself before you receive your crown back? Then fall down before me, obey me, and be subject to me." The ban was taken away from Henry under the most dishonorable conditions.
As he returned back to Germany, even his old friend, a bishop, denied himself and did not want to help him.
The Lombards were outraged over all this, and they spoke their minds. This gave Henry the courage to gather an army and move against the pope. Gregory held his peace as long as he had nothing concrete to follow up on, but when Henry was defeated in battle, he sent a crown to Rudolph with the proud inscription: "The rock (the church) received from Peter, Peter gives to Rudolph this crown." Henry IV was put in the interdict for the second time, which was worse than the first time.
Rudolph was now the emperor over Germany, elected by the enemies of Henry. Henry IV found enough strength and courage to call a synod. Gregory was demoted again, and Guibert, archbishop of Ravenna, Italy, was established as pope Clement III. Gregory tried some of his old tricks again and he spoke to those now outcast rebels that the false emperor would die within the coming year. To assure success, that this prophecy would come true, Gregory send his henchmen. The popes evil plan turned to blessings, however, for Henry IV, for on the 15th of June 1080 A.D. he defeated Rudolph I in battle, who later on died of wound received in that battle. Now Henry had free hand and marched against the concubine of the pope, Mathilda, defeated her army, took the city, and besieged Hildebrandt in his hideout, Engelsburg. Gregory called for help from the Northmen who happened to be in Sicily, and they came and rescued him, but he had to flee from Rome, because the people chased him out of the city. He went to Sicily, to his friends the Northmen at Salerno, where he lived until his death as a cursed man.
He had changed many things in the R.C. church, like ordering all masses to be read in Latin. He demanded that every one had to follow the R.C. customs. Boniface had already taken care of that in Germany. In one of his letters he had laid down 27 rules of conduct toward the pope. I will mention a few of them:
The pope alone is allowed to wear royal jewelry.
All princes must kiss the feet of the pope, and they are not to give this honor to any one else.
Only the pope can remove emperors and kings from office.
The pope's judgment cannot be revoked by any human being; he, on the other hand, can overturn every ones judgment.
The R.C. church is infallible and never be in error, says the Scripture.
Whosoever does not stay with the R.C. faith is not be considered a catholic.
The pope can release subjects from the oath of allegiance to an ill-willed ruler.( The pope is the judge over who he likes or dislikes.)
It seems that it is not necessary to say more about pope Gregory VII, but bishop Thierry of Verdun, Belgium, had this to say, "His life accused him, his perversity condemns him, his stiff necked wickedness is cursing him."
In the 11th century the Greek church separated herself from the R.C. church saying, they could no longer agree with the teachings and doctrines of the Vatican viewing them as heretical. They saw in the lordship of the pope the very anti-christ. (How right they were.)
Under Hadrian IV who became pope in 1153 A.D., the battle against the house of Hohenstaufen continued. King Frederick I held the stirrups for the pope, a job that was a stable boy’s job, showing how far things had progressed. His most difficult position had Frederick I with pope Alexander III during his reign from 1159 – 1181 A.D., for he was the most courageous and intelligent pope, who never, not even under severe pressure, faltered or got excited. They met at Venice and Frederick kissed his feet.
The mighty king Henry II had to bow down before this pope, and it happened this way: Thomas Becket was at one time the king’s special friend, and Henry had given him many gifts, and even made him archbishop of Canterbury. Becket used his office to turn against the king and unite with the pope, conspiring against his benefactor and friend. King Henry II was very hurt and unhappy about it and in a moment of deep anguish of soul he uttered the words that went something like this: Oh, if someone would deliver me from this Thomas Becket. Some of Henry’s knights heard him and killed him. For this Becket was declared to sainthood.
The cardinals and bishops wanted revenge, (Can any one see the Spirit of CHRIST in this?) so pope Alexander III threatened him with the interdict. King Henry II, not wanting his people to suffer, took the punishment that the pope had announced over him, even though he swore that he did not have anything to do with the death of Becket, it made no difference, he had to walk barefoot to the grave of the new saint, and receive from eighty priests three lashes each, making it 240 lashes in all. Popes treated emperors and kings as though they were dogs, as history tells to those who want to find out.
The most powerful pope of all the popes was Innocent III who held office from 1198 – 1215 A.D. All the rights that Gregory VII had imagined came to pass under this powerful pope. He was 37 years old when he took office, and from that moment on, emperors and kings were sore afraid of him. He acted like a schoolmaster against a school filled with boys.
He was the implementer of the doctrine of transubstantiation, of which was spoken some 300 years earlier, around the time when of Stephen V was on the throne of Rome. This doctrine had become law through pope Innocent III. From that day forward, Catholics have been told that through the consecration of the priests, the bread and wine, while celebrating mass, turns into the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ.
A missionary, who was working among the Indians of North-America once asked a native, “How many Gods do we have?” The native answered, “None, because you gave him to me this morning, and I ate him.” This pope is also the inventor of the auricular confession, and the Inquisition. The Inquisition has been the most desecrated and ugly tribunal held by the human race.
The most dangerous enemy of the popes was still the house of Hohenstaufen, played out between Frederick II and Gregory IX. Frederick was accused of saying that the world was deceived by three crooks, two of which were honorable Moses, Mohammed, and the third died on the cross, Christ. For this and other accusations he was put in the interdict time and time again. One day he and his entourage came upon a field of wheat, and he stopped them, warning them not to enter, for there is where they grow gods, referring to the fact that the wafer is made of wheat flour.
Gregory liked the German order of knights, but they had little use for him which is understood in the words of a nobleman of Plauen, Germany: "Don't give any land to the priesthood, but pay them like any other government official, for it is better for them to stick to the simplicity of the gospel." Another named Wallenrode said, "One priest for every nation is enough, and he should be kept in confinement only to be freed to do his duty."
Innocent IV continued the war with Frederick II during the years from 1243–1255 A.D. Innocent's real name was Earl Fiesko, and was a former friend of the king before he became pope. When king Frederick was congratulated for his friend to be elected, he replied, "Fiesko was a friend of mine, Innocent IV will be my enemy." It came to pass as the king had predicted. It did not take long before the pope spoke the interdict over him, but Frederick was not dismayed, and went after him. The pope, disguised as a soldier, fled, covering 54 miles in one short summer night to escape imprisonment. He went to Lyon, France, and in the year 1243 A.D. he called a synod and Frederick was put in the interdict again. The king fought like a man, but the stupid people believed the pope and the king died eventually by papal poison.
Pope Innocent IV thanked the people of Lyon through cardinal Hugo in true Vatican fashion for their hospitality by saying, “We leave you now with an inheritance, for when we came to this city we found only four prostitutes, today you will find the whole city to be a whore house.” Lyon had now acquired the status of Munich, which was declared to be the German Rome by pope Pius VI Innocent I gave the cardinals their red hat as a sign of distinction.
After him came a number of insignificant popes. Urban IV instituted the celebration of the Corpus Christi in honor to the wafer, which was triggered by a crazy nun who insisted she had seen a hole in the moon, and this hole was covered by him with a new festival.
Martin V was a French pope who hated Germans. His wish was that Germany would become a lake. The Germans become the fishes in the lake, and he would be the pike.
The house of Hohenstaufen was losing its fight against the Vatican. The dynasty of Habsburg however, had learned a lesson, and went along with the Vatican, surviving right up to this day.
Innocent V was the first pope elected by the conclave.
Colistin V was a simple hermit, and he became an even more simple pope. The cardinal Cajetan played a trick on him by speaking through a loud hailer into the papal chambers hollering, “Colistin, Colistin, this office is too much of a burden for you, resign I advise you.” It happened that he resign shortly after this day, for he truly believed it was God who had spoken to him. Cardinal Cajetan took office as Boniface VIII from 1295–1303 A.D. He rode on a horse that was led by two kings on the day of his inauguration. When he returned from his crowning, 40 people were trampled to death who had come to watch him dine in the open square with the two kings acting as waiters behind his chair. The new pope was very angry, because many did not believe that Colistin had resigned, but thought of him as being a saint. To make an end of it, Boniface had him arrested. Although this simple Simon begged to be released and to be allowed to go back to his cave to dwell there, it was denied. He was thrown into prison and died of starvation.
This pope was equally as proud as Gregory III, and Innocent III, and in a papal bull he made it known by saying:
"We declare, order, and decree that all mankind is subject to the pope and those that won't believe it cannot obtain salvation." (There you have it. You are not saved by grace through faith my friend.)
To no surprise his unbelievable pride got him in trouble with equally proud monarchs. Philip, king of France, clashed with him severely, but Philip was no Henry IV. Boniface wrote a letter to Philip:
"Boniface VIII to Philip, king of France. Fear God and keep his commandments. Be it known to you, you are subject to us in both spiritual and worldly matters. And whoever believes otherwise will by seen as a heretic."
Philip, who had all the leading men behind him as one man, answered:
"Philip, by the grace of God, king of France, to Boniface, who thinks he is the pope, little, or no greetings! Let it be known unto you silly fool, maxima tua fatiutas, that we are no ones subject in worldly matters. Whoever believes otherwise must be regarded as a fool and be insane."
The opposite picture was seen in Eric, king of Denmark, as he was threatened with the interdict. He replied saying: "Mercy, mercy! What have my people done to you? All that your holiness wants to punish me with I will endure. Speak and your servant will listen."
The silly fool was humbled by Philip’s emissary, Nogaret, together with Sciaara Colonna and his family against whom the pope had committed great atrocities beyond belief. The people ambushed the pope in his castle, Anagni, took him prisoner and threw him in jail where he refused to eat of fear to be poisoned. History repeats itself over and over, and the people of Anagni released him. The humbling had made him insane and he committed suicide that same night. This terminated Boniface VIII as it was prophesied. The saying goes, “He crept in like a fox, he reigned like a lion, and died like a dog.” His public declaration was that prostitution, adultery, and fornication are no sinful acts, because God has made men and women for that purpose.
His faith was something else, for his motto was, “As long as God takes care of me in this world, I don't care about others.” King Philip accused him of the following blasphemous statement, “It is not fashionable to believe in God and in the Tri-unity as well." He said also, “Mary has been a virgin as much as my mother was.” And, “The sacraments are a farce.”
Philosophers and free spirits have made such statements in the past, but something like that coming out of the mouth of a pope is more than tasteless, even more so, since during the time of Inquisition thousands were burned or otherwise tormented and killed for saying less than this. To put the icing on the cake, pope Clement V declared him a saint.
With Clement V began the “Babylonian Exile“ for the popes. King Philip saw it as an advantage to have the pope near at hand where he could keep an eye on him, so he gave him Avignon, France, where he remained for 70 years. They were forced to depend on the king for their daily provision, and he, in turn, gave them protection. While in their new surrounding however, they went looking for ways to get to money, and they succeeded to corrupt the land with their immoral lifestyle. Clement V was almost like Boniface VIII, except he was a little smarter, and that opened doors for him that Boniface never knew about. He was the one who poisoned king Henry III, who was a sworn enemy of the Vatican and its ungodly system. He was poisoned while celebrating mass as he consumed of poisoned wafer. He achieved the greatest honor when he murdered the Knights of Templar. These knights were given over to an immoral lifestyle, but look who was doing the job? This knighthood was very rich and wanted religious freedom. They were taken to court by the pope and lost. The Vatican had killed two flies with one swat.
John XXII was a cobbler by trade. He was also a gangster from his youth on. Once he was on the See, he went working to improve his skills in wickedness. He was constantly fighting with the kings of France and Bavaria, and Philip told him many times that he would burn him at the stake, and he followed through. Ludwig, the king of Bavaria, eventually gave in to the pope, leaving Philip alone to fight the pope. When he died, he left 33 million, which the church absorbed, and the song "Stabat Mater Dolorosa." His successor was Benedict XII, who was a decent man, who had only one fault, he was pope.
Clement VI, who took office after Benedict, was fair, but not very godly, which can be said of about every pope. As he was living an immoral lifestyle, he rebuked his bishops and priests saying, “You act like a herd of steers against the cows of the nation.”
Philip IV, as we have already heard, did not like the pope telling him how to run his affairs, and pope Urban V felt this very soon. A bishop refused to ordain a monk, who was recommended by the mayor of Milan, Barnabo Viscanti. So Philip wrote to the bishop, “Don't you know you whoremonger, that I am king, pope, and emperor in my own country?” Urban replied by speaking the interdict over him. When the legates came to deliver the papal bull, they were led to the river that was flowing through the town, and asked, “Will you rather eat or drink?” The legates looked at each other and decided to eat, so they ate the bull given them.
Gregory XI moved the "office of God" back to Rome.
A shining example of a "man of God" can be seen in pope Urban who reigned during the years 1378–1389 A.D. He was more of a tiger than a monkey. His wickedness had no end. There were 5 cardinals at the conclave, as well as a number of prelates, who did not vote for him. He ordered them all to be tortured, put into bags, and thrown in the ocean. As they were led away, the pope gave orders that they be tortured so he can hear their cries. The carcasses of two of the cardinals were dried in a kiln, ground to powder, put into bags and attached to a mule which was led before him whenever he traveled, as a warning to others.
Near the end of the 14th century, and right in to the 15th century, we will always find more than one pope at the same time. They were from their followers proclaimed as the rightful pope, “the deputy of God.”
All moral laws, rather spiritual or secular, were set aside by those vagabonds of the clergy, and finally, it was beginning to sink in to the citizens of the "holy Roman Empire" that there must be something more to Christianity than that what was in front of their eyes every day. Voices began to be heard that demanded change, to restore the church back to the standard of the times of the Apostles.
A council was called at Constance, Germany, in the year 1414 A.D. which was to become the most glamorous council ever held. Present were one pope, one emperor, all the princes of the holy Roman Empire, 153 dukes, 132 earls, over 700 members of the order of knights and barons, 4 patriarchs, 29 cardinals, 47 archbishops, 160 bishops, over 200 abbots, many lawyers, and all their servants. There were also 1000 prostitutes to be found.
At this same time three popes were fighting over the tiara and the papal crown. They were John XXIII, Gregory and Benedict. John was bold enough to appear at the council, and steps were taken to investigate his past life. All his crimes were gathered into 70 articles and given him to read and approve. It led to his sudden disappearance in the disguise of a mailman, with the help of the duke, Frederick of Tyrol. Fifty-four articles of John's crimes were read., but the remainder was withheld publicly, because of shame. Thirty-seven witnesses could prove that John, not only had committed whoredom, sodomy, simony, (which is the attempt to buy the apostolic office), free thinking, murder, and robbery, but he was also accused of having led at least 300 nuns astray, under the promise to make them abbesses over monasteries. His secretary testified that he had a harem of 200 females in Bologna and Italy, and that he had poisoned Clement V. John XXIII was fired. Gregory abdicated on his own, however, Benedict kept playing vice-god at a remote area of Spain, until he was poisoned by pope Martin V.
As far as the Council of Constance was concerned, no solution was brought forward to reform the R.C. church. However, John Huss and Hieronymus of Prague were burned at the stake as martyrs, quenching the fire of the reformation. Europe was plunged in to a number of religious wars because of it.
I could go on, because I have only told part of the whole story, but I have reached the point of saturation. I will not speak of the Borgia sisters, especially Lucretia, and the battles that have been fought because of the vengefulness of the bloodthirsty Julius II In the years from 1503 – 1513 A.D.
This is a far cry from the Apostle Paul's letter to Timothy 3:1-13 that speaks of the virtue of a man of GOD in the true sense of the teaching of JESUS CHRIST. But let us read the words out of the book of Revelation the chapters 17 and 18 in its entirety and I trust it will bring more light on the subject than any words of men can.
Sixtus V remained even as pope a highly disciplined monk who went about to cleanse the land of the many gangs that had sprung up amongst the common people. Five-hundred criminals expected their freedom when he was elected pope, (for this was the custom of the land), but to their dismay, he emptied all the jails by hanging them. He drove his sense of justice with great passion. He not only went after the gangsters, but also those who sold human flesh, the pimps that procured prostitutes for the priesthood. In spite of his many good deeds with which he blessed mankind, he continued to burn heretics at the stake. He hated the Jesuits and the Spanish king, Philip II. When the Jesuits came to him to persuade him to choose one of them as a father confessor, he answered, “It would be better for the church if Jesuits came to me for confession.”
Sixtus V was too much of a disciplinarian for the whole of the priesthood. It should not be surprising to hear that he, all of a sudden, took "sick" and by 1590 A.D., this last feared pope, died. It could have been a blessing for the world if he'd stayed around for a little while longer, but for the Romans, they were glad to see him gone.
The Reformation had now past over the Christian world. Much harm was done to the R.C. church and the image of the Vatican. The interdict was no longer an effective tool for the church and had sunken to the level of a flash of light.
The city of Venice was the first show place between pope Paul V and the government of Venice. The Jesuits tried to cause uproar among the people, causing civil unrest, but the coup failed, and all the monks were ordered to leave the city. A man named Servite Paul Sarpi, (also known as Fra Paolo), used his pen to the best of his ability to speak the truth, so much so, that the cardinals, Bellarmine and Baronius plotted against him. He was attacked, receiving 15 knife wounds, but he did not die.
Urban VII, who died in 1644 A.D., was a little tyrant, for he did not have what it takes to be a big tyrant. However, he stirred up the world with his fiery fanaticism. He is the originator of the papal bull In Coena Domino. In this bull he writes of all kinds of heresies right down to the pit of hell and it was all done in the name of the father, the son , and the holy ghost, because he could not have meant the FATHER, the SON, and the HOLY SPIRIT as true Christians know HIM. They were all condemned. He ordered that beside the 52 Sundays of each year another 34 church festivals were to be observed and all of it under the threat of committing a sin unto death if not observed.
I will end here in the hope that I have showed enough evidence who and what we are dealing with as far as the Roman Catholic church is concerned. It is my prayer that you are convinced that we are not dealing with anything Christian.